Opinion time: Nothing gets me suspicious about a game’s quality like celebrity casting.
C’mon people, there’s already professionals who get paid to voice video game characters and are often quite good at it. They’re called voice actors.
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I’m of the belief that mysteries shouldn’t have too many rules. As cliché as it is for the butler to have done it, I don’t want to experience mysteries where I can immediately rule out to butler because it’d be too obvious.
Hell, more butlers should do it just to shake things up. Maybe Jeeves is tired of being surrounded by incompetent bastards and bashes a couple of heads in with a chair leg.
Anyway, I prefer my mysteries to be a bit wild. Unpredictable. Sensible, when it gets to the end and all is revealed, but crazy enough that I couldn’t just rule out solutions just because they’re tropes.
And then there’s Disco Elysium.
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